Emirates, Etihad among world's best airlines

Dubai - Global airline rating agency airlineratings.com named its winners for 2017

It's not even 2017 yet but they year will be looking lively for UAE airlines, Emirates and Etihad.
Global airline rating agency airlineratings.com just released their awardees for the Airline Excellence Awards with Air New Zealand taking home the Airline of the Year award for the fourth consecutive year.
Abu Dhabi's flagship carrier Etihad took home the prestigious Best First Class award for the third time coming. Airlineratings.com Editor-in-chief Geoffrey Thomas was quoted as saying: "Etihad's commitment to excellence appears to know no bounds. The airline's new First Class and Business Class offerings are quite stunning and have set the bar even higher in luxury travel."
Here's how Etihad's First Class looks.

Dubai's Emirates Airlines also takes home an award for Best In-Flight Entertainment. Emirates is actually one of the pioneers of in-flight entertainment worldwide having fully equipped their fleet with the system back in 1993. Emirates' ICE system is unparalleled across the globe and carries with it a wide range of features such as following the progress of your flight; view the sky from the aircraft's external cameras; live business, sport, and news headlines; phone, sms and email capabilities and topping it all off is access to over 600 channels of premium entertainment from the latest movies to the newest TV series episodes.
The Airline Excellence Awards celebrates airlines that have achieved the pinnacle of flying comfort and style.
- keith@khaleejtimes.com